Mabel Ruth Bloom McIntyre Manley, 68, was last seen on March 2, 1972, working as a bartender at the Bigger Jigger No. 2 Tavern in Kansas City, Missouri. She and 69-year-old Jake Green, a janitor at the same tavern, vanished that day and were later found several miles away on Blue River Road. Both had been shot multiple times with different caliber weapons.

Investigators linked both deaths to the McCrary family, a nomadic criminal group tied to a series of abductions, robberies and murders across several states; the circumstances in Manley’s and Green’s cases were said to fit that pattern. Mabel Manley was born November 10, 1903, in Braddyville, Iowa, and had lived in Kansas City for about twenty years. She was survived by a son in Trenton, Missouri, and three grandchildren.

Does anyone have memories of the Bigger Jigger No. 2 Tavern, Blue River Road in 1972, or information about the people Mabel worked with that could help clarify what happened?